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The other day, lawyers for Ruby Freeman submitted pardoned felon Bernie Kerik's strategic plan to steal the election, which he sent to Mark Meadows on 12/28/2020.
I assume it was previously released but I hadn't looked closely.
documentcloud.org/documents/2384…
I assume it was previously released but I hadn't looked closely.
documentcloud.org/documents/2384…
Here's how they planned to disseminate their false claims about voter fraud.
Nothing surprising--but it's important bc THIS DOCUMENT makes false claims about Ruby Freeman, which they're suing over.
Nothing surprising--but it's important bc THIS DOCUMENT makes false claims about Ruby Freeman, which they're suing over.
I read Rudy's depo, in which he professed not to know who the person in charge of social media outreach, TF, was, before I read WaPo's story reflecting an interview with Tom Fitton.
But as someone noted, it all seems to answer itself.
washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
But as someone noted, it all seems to answer itself.
washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
#MattyDickPics is desperately trying to disclaim any tie to Elmo's censorship in the service of Erdogan. Who knows? Maybe he believes the things he is desperately squealing? Maybe he HAS to believe it, like he HAS to believe there was no there there to the RU investigation...
But the reason why I've ALWAYS said that the Twitter Files was a fascist project is because Matty ROUTINELY got caught making shit up. Straight up false claims, belied by the very screen caps he was posting, starting from his ignorant horror abt Hunter Biden's dick pics.
The project has always been about claiming 2+2=5.
Removal of an inorganic campaign to post non-consensual dick pics that violate Terms of Service = "censorship."
Removal of an inorganic campaign to post non-consensual dick pics that violate Terms of Service = "censorship."
Let's unpack what's going on here.
1) #MattyDickPics is brushing off fact that Jim Jordan got misrepresenting a transcript, just like he got caught altering a Twitter Files screen cap.
2)@DavidSacks is treating #mattydickpics as a credible interlocutor even AFTER he got caught.
1) #MattyDickPics is brushing off fact that Jim Jordan got misrepresenting a transcript, just like he got caught altering a Twitter Files screen cap.
2)@DavidSacks is treating #mattydickpics as a credible interlocutor even AFTER he got caught.
3) BOTH of them, who've been blubbering about "free speech" nonstop for 6 months, are SQUEALING bc 50 private citizens wrote a letter and expressed an opinion for which they had lots of backing.
Again: These boys are SQUEALING bc people wrote a letter.
That's it. Wrote a letter
Again: These boys are SQUEALING bc people wrote a letter.
That's it. Wrote a letter
If you need any more proof neither of these boys gives a shit about free speech, there it is.
SQUEALING bc 50 private citizens expressed a well-substantiated opinion.
SQUEALING bc 50 private citizens expressed a well-substantiated opinion.
Reason is lying here.
Plaskett invited Taibbi to correct the record, given his admission of false claims. Journalists should not be held to a LOWER standard of truth, even if @reason would like to be.
Plaskett invited Taibbi to correct the record, given his admission of false claims. Journalists should not be held to a LOWER standard of truth, even if @reason would like to be.
So far we have @ryangrim, @robbysoave, @daveweigel, @theintercept, @reason, and @FreedomofPress arguing that journalist #mattydickpics should be held to a LOWER standard than ordinary citizens when testifying to Congress.
He admitted to errors. He should correct the record.
He admitted to errors. He should correct the record.
I have NO FUCKING CLUE why these journalists would argue that #MattyDickPics admitted false claims should be protected.
But that's where we are.
But that's where we are.
Edward Snowden's FOPF says that self-described "reverse chauvinist" for Russia, #mattydickpics, should be able to lie to Congress even after he admits he lied on TV.
This is not about being a journalist. It's about refusing to correct admitted lies to Congress.
This is not about being a journalist. It's about refusing to correct admitted lies to Congress.
I'm not sure why @theintercept editor @ryangrim is going to the mat to protect #mattydickpics' refusal to correct claims he admitted were false claims on TV.
But it suggests The Intercept thinks journos should enjoy a LOWER standard of truth than other Congressional witnesses.
But it suggests The Intercept thinks journos should enjoy a LOWER standard of truth than other Congressional witnesses.
To be VERY clear: Stacey Plaskett basically wrote #MattyDickPics a letter that said, "You admitted you made false claims to HJC on TV, would you like to correct the record?" and now @ryangrim is trying to pretend this is a press issue, rather than a basic honesty issue.
Let's unpack this little Fabergé egg, shall we?
First, apparently Area Substacker claims to believe that a press release invoking Chris Rufo, Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life, and repeating meaningless propaganda terms at least 14 times, all while claiming to care abt truth, is not propaganda.
Here's the link, btw. This is literally a "DEI is the one true truth" presser.
fldoe.org/newsroom/lates…
fldoe.org/newsroom/lates…
I'm just now discovering that last summer #mattydickpics called for Hillary to be banned from Twitter because he misrepresented the Sussmann trial and misrepresented the entirety of the Russian investigation.
Imagine being duped by John Durham?
racket.news/p/shouldnt-hil…
Imagine being duped by John Durham?
racket.news/p/shouldnt-hil…
Just last summer, #mattydickpics was so stupid that he didn't understand that when people steal files via cloud computing, it leaves traces in many different servers. (He has changed that view now that he's Elmo's chief pet, but is too stupid to realize he has.)
This is classic "Russiagate" propaganda, making the provably false claim that the claims of Trump ties to RU all came from the dossier and Alfa Bank.
Just minutes into Jimmy Jordan's Insurrection Protection hearing, he has lied about what Yoel Roth testified.
c-span.org/video/?526578-…
c-span.org/video/?526578-…
Now Jimmy J is complaining that 1) FBI used a special app for stuff that's not at issue here and 2) that Twitter is paid for complying with legal process, as required by law.
BREAKING: Jimmy J finds it amazing Aspen Institute focused on Hunter Biden after 1) known Russian spies tried to deal Hunter Biden dirt to Rudy Giuliani and 2) GRU hacked Burisma.
Jimmy J is now accusing former spooks of making "false" claims, when they expressed an opinion
Jimmy J is now accusing former spooks of making "false" claims, when they expressed an opinion
#MattyDickPics still pretending that one can totally misrepresent what screen caps say--as he has been caught doing over and over--and they'll still be true if taken from docs.
#MattyDickPics again lies to his little dupes. MUCH of what he is complaining about--deliberate disinformation about means of voting--has been prosecuted under the Ku Klux Klan Act.
He's basically running PR for voter suppression.
He's basically running PR for voter suppression.
Self-described reverse chauvinist for Russia lies about what the claims re 2016 are -- and spreads Trump-worthy disinformation about what was demonstrated.
Why would journalists apologize bc they didn't chase single server fallacies, like #MattyDickPics?
Why would journalists apologize bc they didn't chase single server fallacies, like #MattyDickPics?
#MattyDickPics confesses he's getting a partisan selection of files.
So embarrassing to be so easily manipulated by Elmo like this.
So embarrassing to be so easily manipulated by Elmo like this.
For those asking how #MattyDickPics got his name -- it has been a long time since his first embarrassing failures in his Twitter propaganda.
emptywheel.net/2022/12/03/mat…
emptywheel.net/2022/12/03/mat…
BREAKING: The next piece of the puzzle was that #MattyDickPics wailed that Twitter took down nonconsensual dick pics posted by Guo Wengui.
#mattydickpics unsurprisingly celebrates the guy who laundered Russian intelligence product into @cjr w/o disclosure.
@CJR I finished my series on Jeff Gerth and Kyle Pope's wildly erroneous screed yesterday.
Part One: on how Gerth started lying at word 18.
emptywheel.net/2023/02/07/cjr…
Part One: on how Gerth started lying at word 18.
emptywheel.net/2023/02/07/cjr…
@CJR Part Two, on how Gerth ignored the vast majority of the @nytimes and @washingtonpost stories he claimed to be commenting on.
emptywheel.net/2023/02/07/the…
emptywheel.net/2023/02/07/the…
One day after OGR proved that #mattydickpics is a liar who "censored" information about Trump's efforts to suppress speech, Elise and Turley are treating #mattydickpics as a factual mouthpiece.
BREAKING: Elise says that tech companies should no longer be reimbursed for legal process.
Remember that there are lawyers involved with Twitter Files whose role has not been disclosed. Are we sure Turley is not involved personally?
Less than 5 minutes into Jim Jordan's Deep State Committee, Jordan has complained that militia members who attacked the Capitol are investigated as domestic terrorists.
He calls a guy who REFUSED to arrest militia members a "whistleblower."
He calls a guy who REFUSED to arrest militia members a "whistleblower."
WHY IS JIM JORDAN OPPOSED TO ARRESTING THOSE WHO ATTACKED THE CAPITOL?
Stacey Plaskett quoting Reagan's OLC head (Ted Olson maybe?)
Coming in late to @jamesComer's Hunter Biden dick pic hearing. Witness Anna Navaroli describes predicting on Jan5 that someone is going to get shot.
c-span.org/video/?525786-…
c-span.org/video/?525786-…
@JamesComer James Comer says didn't Biden have contact with Twitter?
He did!!
About DICK PICS DICK PICS DICK PICS DICK PICS!!!
He did!!
About DICK PICS DICK PICS DICK PICS DICK PICS!!!
@JamesComer Now Comer lies.
Really disgraceful behavior from a senior Republican.
Also claims that "so much of this family" is in that hard drive. Shameful stuff.
Really disgraceful behavior from a senior Republican.
Also claims that "so much of this family" is in that hard drive. Shameful stuff.
#mattydickpics here trying to excuse GAPING holes in his work -- like the 2020 Iranian campaign (and blame them on others), says one of his biggest findings is ... meetings.
Meetings.
Then he lies about another--the reason for voter suppression reports.
Meetings.
Then he lies about another--the reason for voter suppression reports.
To sum up: Months into this, #MattyDickPics thinks the biggest takeaways are:
1) a story he didn't write
2) meetings
3) a lie in service of people who violate the Klan Act
4) Adam Schiff trying to stop death threats
1) a story he didn't write
2) meetings
3) a lie in service of people who violate the Klan Act
4) Adam Schiff trying to stop death threats
BREAKING!!!
Twitter had meetings.
Truly scandalous stuff.
Twitter had meetings.
Truly scandalous stuff.
#mattydickpics LITERALLY described that he was a reverse chauvinist for Russia when he denied they'd invade Ukraine.
And he not only is not "reporting" anything, the talking points he parrots get several key details wrong.
And he not only is not "reporting" anything, the talking points he parrots get several key details wrong.
The FUNNIEST thing about #MattyDickPics' latest faceplant, though, is the accused co-conspirator of one of those 12 people, who kept hacking US targets and even cheating Tesla!, goes on trial January 30.
#MattyDickPics is, as per usual, doubling down on things he knows nothing about.
Tl;dr: he's helping Yevgeniy Prigozhin, who CURRENTLY is butchering Ukrainians, dissociate his corporate person from his biological one.
Just more ass-kissing to oligarchs.
Tl;dr: he's helping Yevgeniy Prigozhin, who CURRENTLY is butchering Ukrainians, dissociate his corporate person from his biological one.
Just more ass-kissing to oligarchs.
Here's a claim from #MattyDickPics' latest SubStack. In it, he suggests that cloud platforms have better visibility on the authenticity and location of their traffic than the public.
It's utterly devastating to #MattyDickPics continued PR for RU on 2016
taibbi.substack.com/p/america-need…
It's utterly devastating to #MattyDickPics continued PR for RU on 2016
taibbi.substack.com/p/america-need…
In fact, it goes to the heart of #MattyDickPics' screaming ignorance abt attribution of the 2016 hack-and-leak: Not only did FBI attribute to RU, based off BOTH forensics from the targets AND evidence from cloud platforms, not only did security companies, but so did the platforms
Worse still, Twitter is not Facebook (or Google or Microsoft, all of which have FAR better visibility & tech than Twitter has ever attempted (cf @dotMudge).
Even in what #MattyDickPics has covered, there are indications that Twitter doesn't have perfect attribution.
Even in what #MattyDickPics has covered, there are indications that Twitter doesn't have perfect attribution.
Nature recently found that, "exposure to the Russian [internet troll] influence campaign was eclipsed by content from domestic news media and politicians."
nature.com/articles/s4146…
nature.com/articles/s4146…
In September 2017, I wrote that the RU campaign was, "the equivalent of throwing a few matches on top of the raging bonfire that is the well established, vicious, American-funded inferno of far right media."
That held up!
emptywheel.net/2017/09/16/the…
That held up!
emptywheel.net/2017/09/16/the…
That said, we've learned since then that the troll campaign(s) also became ways to facilitate cooperation, both IRL and online.
A reminder that journalists are not obligated to float bullshit requests without pushback.
For example, it'd be really USEFUL if ABC pointed out that Ron Johnson already GOT a bunch of SARs on Hunter Biden (even while Mueller did not).
For example, it'd be really USEFUL if ABC pointed out that Ron Johnson already GOT a bunch of SARs on Hunter Biden (even while Mueller did not).
And imagine if you revealed the FACT that one chief complaint about the Twitter Files -- the only one implicating Joe Biden -- is that #mattydickpics is angry that he can't see Hunter Biden's dick on Twitter.
Even better, point out that the dick pics #MattyDickPics is outraged he can't see were sent as part of a coordinated campaign by Guo Wengui.
motherjones.com/politics/2022/…
motherjones.com/politics/2022/…
#mattydickpics, who expressed OUTRAGE that Twitter took down non-consensual dick pics at the request of the Dems--it was LITERALLY his big reveal first thread--now says it doesn't matter.
He's still lying to you abt his FBI trying to enforce the Ku Klux Klan Act.
He's still lying to you abt his FBI trying to enforce the Ku Klux Klan Act.
#mattydickpics, of course, is a self-described reverse chauvinist in favor of Russia, and he suppressed (censored) about 10 important details that anyone with basic knowledge of events relating to hacking in 2019 and 2020 could share abt background to the "laptop."
One thing that tips you off that #mattydickpics is a hack: He has provided no discussion of how Twitter responded to an Iranian hack-and-voter suppress effort made in the guise of the Proud Boys, which happened in these very same weeks of 2020.
Why not?
Why not?
I'm writing about some OTHER lies that Michael Shellenberger told in his little Twitter Files thread, but this one deserves far more attention because a whole slew of people claim it shows the FBI was asking for information without legal process.
What it ACTUALLY is is Elvis Chan, the local FBI guy, passing on a request from the NSA about prohibitions on Dataminr sharing the live feed of Twitter information.
But note: EVEN THE SCREENCAP makes it clear this is a request for public Twitter information.
But note: EVEN THE SCREENCAP makes it clear this is a request for public Twitter information.
NSA: Can we get public Twitter information from Dataminr or is that still prohibited?
Twitter: It is still prohibited.
That's what the screencaps show.
Twitter: It is still prohibited.
That's what the screencaps show.
Anyone besides me wonder why Lee Fang chose not to screen cap this doc (especially given how #mattydickpics and Michael Smallberger have misrepresented Jim Baker screen caps)?
In fact, the very next tweet, which Fang DOES screen cap, shows a Jim Baker interlocutor raising concerns about bullshit from DOD. Only ... that's not how Fang portrays it.
Thus far EVERY purportedly scandalous twitter account that Elmo's pets have focused on were ... not what the pets claimed they were.
Here, Fang asks us to trust him that he's not as shoddy a journalist as his fellow Elmo-pets have been.
Why should we?
Show your work.
Here, Fang asks us to trust him that he's not as shoddy a journalist as his fellow Elmo-pets have been.
Why should we?
Show your work.
I mean, telling people to vote on the wrong day has been charged as a crime elsewhere. But to #MattyDickPics it's a big har har har.
#MattyDIckPics is OUTRAGED that Twitter encouraged vulnerable users to upgrade their security.
This is part of his "proof" that Twitter is too close to the FBI.
This is part of his "proof" that Twitter is too close to the FBI.
#mattydickpics is also OUTRAGED that Twitter authenticated the OH's Republican Speaker of the House.
Truly scandalous stuff.
Truly scandalous stuff.
The single solitary example that #MattyDickPics does show is Yoel Roth, who is the villain of not just this thread, but the
entire fictional narrative, CORRECTING PEOPLE when they claim Trump was lying.
Wow. Villainous behavior: Making sure people don't falsely accuse Trump.
entire fictional narrative, CORRECTING PEOPLE when they claim Trump was lying.
Wow. Villainous behavior: Making sure people don't falsely accuse Trump.
This tweet is really important for a different reason: it reveals that if Trump said something false about the election it'd be a violation. Well, he did that. So show us what happened in response! That's what you've promised to show us!
Nada. #MattyDickPics doesn't do that.
Nada. #MattyDickPics doesn't do that.
Let me tell you what happened, because #MattyDickPics didn't do that, even though it was the ONLY JOB he had to do.
What happened when Trump did stuff that would have gotten other people banned is, he didn't get banned.
Seems like an important detail.
What happened when Trump did stuff that would have gotten other people banned is, he didn't get banned.
Seems like an important detail.
